Bullion Star, headquartered in Singapore, today expounds on the city-state's great advantages for gold investors.
Bullion Star writes: "Apart from the goods-and-services tax exemption on investment precious metals, there are a number of other jurisdictional advantages that have supported the growth of Singapore as a gold trading and storage hub and that reinforce the logic for buying gold and storing gold in Singapore.
"In Singapore, there are no other taxes when buying gold, silver, or other Tuesday, December 12, 2017

There is a Disinformation War taking place in the silver market as certain industry analysis is confusing individuals by purposely disregarding the tremendous impact of rising investment demand. Not only do I find this troubling, but I am also quite surprised how much the silver industry pays attention to this faulty analysis. So, it’s time once again to set the record straight.Setting the record straight has now become a new mission for me at the SRSrocco Report because the amount of disinforFriday, December 8, 2017

– Geopolitical risk highest “in four decades” should push gold higher – Citi
– Elections, political and macroeconomic crises and war lead to gold investment
– Political uncertainty in Germany means “gold likely to remain in good demand as a safe haven” say Commerzbank
– “There has rarely been such political uncertainty in Germany at any time in the country’s post-war history” – Commerzbank
– Reduce counter party risk: own safe haven allocated and segregated gold
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
The geopolWednesday, November 22, 2017

Gold surged higher on Friday. Then it gave all the gains back yesterday. Looking beyond this short-term noise, gold is not an exciting market right now. What could make that change?
Gold is trading in a rough sideways trend with an upside bias. This bias continues to strengthen, albeit very slowly. The technical action reflects the fundamentals and liquidity flows and clearly, patience.
I jokingly refer to the SPDR fund as “Spider Man”. Chindian demand is decent, but Spider Man looks like Wednesday, November 22, 2017

The
gold miners’ stocks have spent months adrift, cast off in the long
shadow of the Trumphoria stock-market rally. This vexing
consolidation has left a wasteland of popular bearishness. But once
a quarter earnings season arrives, bright fundamental sunlight
dispelling the obscuring sentiment fogs. The major gold miners’
just-reported Q3’17 results prove this sector remains strong
fundamentally, and super-undervalued.
Four
times a year publicly-traded companFriday, November 17, 2017

The study of financial crises is as old as the economics discipline itself. One of the most prominent theorists of financial crises ever to hold a senior Federal Reserve policy position was John Exter, vice-president of the New York Federal Reserve during the 1950s. Several years ago I co-wrote a series of essays on Exter’s theories together with his sonin- law, Barry Downs. In this paper, building on Exter’s work, including his eponymous ‘pyramid’, I introduce a new ‘hourglass’ framework for unFriday, November 17, 2017

While the gold price is slowly crawling upward in the shadow of the current cryptocurrency boom, China continues to import huge tonnages of the yellow metal. As usual, Chinese investors bought on the price dips in the past quarters, steadfastly accumulating for a rainy day. The Chinese appear to be price sensitive regarding gold, as was mentioned in the most recent World Gold Council Demand Trends report, and can also be observed by Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) premiums – going up when the goldThursday, November 16, 2017

Global gold demand disappointed in Q3 2017 according to the World Gold Council’s latest Gold Demand Trends, but physical buyers bucked the trend with a solid increase in investment coin and bar purchases. At 915 tonnes, total demand fell 9% compared the same period last year, with particular weakness seen in Indian jewellery volumes. Stalling inflows into gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) also negatively impacted Q3 figures, the report’s authors said. Reasons cited for slowing ETF deposiTuesday, November 14, 2017

LONDON -- Gold’s resilience in the face of soaring equities and a dramatic fall in demand this year points to underlying confidence in the metal among investors unconvinced by this autumn's scorching stock market rally.
Bullion's price has barely budged as stocks soared to record high after record high since mid-October and, with a month and a half to go, is on track to post its narrowest trading range of any year since 2005. Physical gold demand, meanwhile, hit an eight-year low in the third qSaturday, November 11, 2017

Gold
has largely been drifting sideways for the better part of a couple
months now, sapping enthusiasm. Gold investment demand has stalled
due to extreme stock-market euphoria. Investors aren’t interested
in alternative investments led by gold when stocks seemingly do
nothing but rally indefinitely. But once stock-market volatility
inevitably returns, so will gold investment demand which fuels major
gold uplegs.
Like
nearly everything else in the global markSaturday, November 11, 2017

BUY GOLD prices traded at 3-week highs and more against all major currencies outside the Japanese Yen on Thursday, rising despite new data showing the weakest 12-monthly gold demand since early 2010.
Global gold buying demand fell below 4,000 tonnes between October 2016 and September this year, with global gold mining output larger by almost one-tenth.
Western stock markets fell again, as did WeThursday, November 9, 2017

LONDON -- Gold demand slid to its lowest in eight years in the last quarter as jewelry buying fell and inflows into bullion-backed exchange traded funds dried up, data from the World Gold Council showed today.
Overall demand fell 9 percent to 915 tonnes, its weakest since the third quarter of 2009, the WGC said.
That pattern is likely to feed through to the full year, with the WGC forecasting annual demand of just 3,900-4,000 tonnes, compared to 4,347 tonnes in 2016. Gold demand has not been belThursday, November 9, 2017

– Gold mining production in China fell by 9.8% in H1 2017
– Decreasing mine supply in world’s largest gold producer and across the globe
– GFMS World Gold Survey predicts mine production to contract year-on-year
– Peak gold production being seen in Australia, world’s no 2 producer
– Peak gold production globally while global gold demand remains robust
Editor Mark O’Byrne
Gold production in the world’s largest gold producer and buyer fell by nearly 10% in the first half of 2017 in what may be aTuesday, November 7, 2017

Normally winter is a good time for gold, with men buying their
significant others jewelry for Christmas and lots of New Years Day
marriage proposals. Here’s an overview of the dynamic from
Adam Hamilton of Zeal Intelligence:
Seasonality is the tendency for prices to exhibit
recurring patterns at certain times during the calendar year. While
seasonality doesn’t drive price action, it quantifies annually-repeating
behavior driven by sentiment, technicals, and fundamentals. We humans
aMonday, November 6, 2017

– German gold demand surges from 17 ton-a-year to a 100 ton-plus per year
– €6.8 Bln spent on German gold investment products in 2016, more per person than India and China
– Germans turned to gold during financial crises and ongoing euro debasement
– Evidence of latent retail demand on increased economic concerns
– “Gold fulfils an important long-term, wealth preservation role in German investors’ portfolios”
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
India and China often grab the headlines as the world’s largestMonday, November 6, 2017

The
gold miners’ stocks have largely ground sideways this year,
consolidating their massive 2016 gains. That lackluster trading
action, along with vexing underperformance relative to gold, has
left gold stocks deeply out of favor. But these uninspiring
technicals and resulting bearish sentiment should soon shift. The
gold stocks are just now entering their strongest seasonal rally of
the year, the super-bullish winter rally.
Gold-stock
performance is highlySaturday, November 4, 2017